Re: [PATCH 0/2] OF phandle nexus support + GPIO nexus

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On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is one small chunk of work related to DT overlays for expansion
> boards. It would be good to have a way to expose #<list>-cells types of
> providers through a connector in a standard way. So we introduce a way
> to make "nexus" nodes for these types of properties to remap the consumer
> number space to the other side of the connector's number space. It's
> basically a copy of the interrupt nexus implementation, but without
> the address space matching design and interrupt-parent walking.
>
> The first patch implements a generic method to do this, and the second patch
> adds a unit test for it. The third patch is more of an example than anything
> else. It shows how we would modify frameworks to use the new API.
>
> Stephen Boyd (3):
>   of: Support parsing phandle argument lists through a nexus node
>   of: unittest: Add phandle remapping test
>   gpio: Support gpio nexus dt bindings

Looks perfectly reasonable to me. But it's mainly for the DT people to review
I guess.

I have no idea about the eventual merge path though, I guess it needs to
go through the OF tree with my ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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